Posts tagged "Lana Del Rey"

Last year, it was rumored that Brian Wilson would be collaborating with Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey on some new tracks for his brand new album, which is due out in April. But when the tracklist surfaced in January, they were nowhere to be found. A rep told Pitchfork at the… More »

Kim Gordon has been doing quite a bit of press for the release of her memoir, Girl In A Band, which came out Tuesday, and her comments about Lana Del Rey have become something of a focal point. In the book, Gordon decries the pop star's blasé attitude toward feminism, including the especially harsh… More »

In Kim Gordon's new memoir, Girl In A Band, she has some harsh words for Lana Del Rey in response to her comments about feminism, which Del Rey rejected in an interview with The FADER last year. Gordon writes:… More »

Lana Del Rey came by much of her pop stardom in a weird ass-backwards way, thanks to a cheese-house "Summertime Sadness" remix that sounded nothing like the rest of her music. This isn't that. Richard X is a whip-smart British producer, a guy who started out making mash-ups during the first wave of that and… More »

Following the success of 2011's The SMiLE Sessions, Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson is releasing a brand new album in April. The artwork above is for No Pier Pressure, which is Wilson's 11th solo album and features a huge cast of collaborators, including both members of She & Him (M. Ward and Zooey… More »

New Lana Del Rey alert! The singer and lightning rod lends her dramatic touch to a track from producer Emile Haynie's forthcoming album We Fall. "Wait For Life" follows Haynie's previous all-star collab "A Kiss Goodbye" and its recent dub reprise. Haynie worked on Del Rey's debut album Born To Die, and thi… More »

Ultraviolence was easily one of the best albums of 2014, so I'm happy to report that Lana Del Rey already has nine original songs and a cover ready for her next album, which will be called Honeymoon. Del Rey shared the info in a new interview with Billboard occasioned by her… More »

Two weeks ago we looked at the year's biggest pop songs; now let's run down the best ones. There will be a lot of overlap, of course, partly because sometimes great songs get popular and partly because sometimes popular songs that initially strike you as insufferable end up wearing you down through sheer persistence. More »

The comeback is real: vinyl now makes up about 3.5% of album sales -- still not a huge number in the scheme of things, but significantly larger than the 0.2% it was pulling in ten years ago. We know that Amazon and Urban Outfitters are going one-two as the biggest vinyl distributors, so… More »

A couple of weeks ago, a piece of footage leaked to the internet. It appeared to be footage from a scrapped Marilyn Manson video that Hostel filmmaker Eli Roth had directed. The whole thing was messed up, but there was one particularly disturbing scene in which Roth appears to rape Lana Del Rey. It… More »

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for next year's Golden Globe awards this morning, and the nominees, especially in the musical categories, include a few people who are very familiar in this particular corner of the internet. In the Best Original Song category, three of our best, weirdest female pop stars are u… More »

Lana Del Rey wrote two songs for the forthcoming Tim Burton film Big Eyes, a biopic about American artist Margaret Keane, and both tracks have made their way online. Earlier this week, we heard a preview of the movie's title track, but you can now hear a full version of that and "I Ca… More »

Music is a messy thing. There's too much of it, too many genres, too many ideas, for anyone to make sense out of all of it -- or even to hear all of it. The idea of imposing a narrative on 365 days of music, of making sense of a whole year, is a fool'… More »

Lana Del Rey contributed two original songs to Tim Burton's new movie Big Eyes. One of those songs, also called "Big Eyes," is previewed in a new lyric video released today. Check out a minute of the song below. More »

Lana Del Rey has announced that Courtney Love will be joining her on some of the dates of her new Endless Summer North American tour next year, which will be in support of her latest album Ultraviolence. Previously, Love schooled Del Rey on the meaning of "Heart-Shaped Box" after the singer covered it… More »

Tom Vek has remixed "Brooklyn Baby," Lana Del Rey's song poking fun at NYC hipsters. The reclusive, self-taught producer and musician has also released remixes of Bombay Bicycle Club, De Lux, and plenty others, always adding some new flare to the original song. Here he's given the formerly somber, expansive "Brooklyn Baby" new life… More »

Sometimes, unreleased videos stay unreleased for a reason. Sometime in the last couple of years, Hostel director Eli Roth made a dark and disturbing video with Marilyn Manson. Footage from that video has now leaked under the title "Sturmgruppe 2013 Reel" (Sturmgruppe is an L.A. digital arts group that Manson has worked with before). More »

Tim Burton's new Amy Adams-starring movie Big Eyes opens on Christmas, and according to The Hollywood Reporter it will feature two new songs by Lana Del Rey, "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly." The songs weren't announced until Big Eyes started screening for critics a few days ago. Some details from THR:… More »

Azealia Banks may have finally gotten her debut album out into the world, but that doesn't mean she's given up her infamous beefing ways. A new profile for The Guardian reads like a laundry list of the spats that Banks has gotten herself into over the past few years, and she trie… More »

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Jay Z bought the Swedish company Aspiro's streaming music service Tidal less than a month ago, but that didn't stop him from rolling out his rebranded product today with lots of fanfare from his famous friends. Rumors before the 5PM livestream suggested that Jay's newfangled Tidal would be launched with exclusive… More »

Jay Z is not playing with his big rollout of the streaming service Tidal. After many big stars tweeted their support last night, those same stars have shown up in a new 30-second spot for the service's big relaunch today. In the ad, we see a collection of luminaries -- Jay, Kanye West,… More »

Jay Z wants you to know that Tidal, the Scandinavian high-fidelity streaming service that he bought earlier this month, is a big deal. So he didn't just get some of music's biggest stars to tweet about the service's big relaunch, which is happening today. He got them all to change their social media… More »

Burger Records held their fourth annual Burgerama festival at the Observatory in Santa Ana this past weekend. The two-day fest featured appearances from bands like Together PANGEA, Fidlar, La Luz, Gang Of Four, Public Access T.V. and many, many more. Ty Segall and Weezer were the headliners, and Rivers Cuomo's dad Frank Cuomo made… More »

Father John Misty has been out on the road promoting his latest record, I Love You, Honeybear, for the past month and will continue to travel the country well into early summer. Photographer Tom Daly caught his set at Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club, along with opener King Tuff, whose Black Moon Spell dropped last… More »